Improvement in casket-handles



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II. C. IVILCOX, OI" WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORY'IO THE MERIDEN'BRITANNIA COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 93,508, dated August 10, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CASKET-HANDLES.

The ScheduleE referred to in these Letters Patent und making parti fnthe same.

To all 'whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, H. C. WILCOX, of Vest Meriden, county -of New Haven, and tateof0onnecticiit, haverinvented a certain new'and useful .Improvement in the Manufacture of Gasket-Handles, and to enable others skilled in tlreart to make and use the saure, I will proceed to describe its construction, referring to the accompanying drawing, in which the same let-ters indicate like parts in each ofthe figures.` i

The nature of this invention will be understood from the speeiiication and drawings, the object of which is to produce a cheap and strong casket-handle, rich and highly ornamental in its appearance.

In the accompanying drawings is shown arr irnproved manufacture of casket-handle.

a are the afastening-platcs, by which the handle is secured to -the casket, and in which are formed ,bearings or sockets for' the reception of the fulcr'urnepin of the handle.

b are the shanks or end portion' of the handle, provided with fulcrurn-pins, c, which have their bearings in thc fastening-plates a..

All the parts thus far described are constructed in the common way.

Upon the inner sides, .and near the centre of the enlarged portion ofthe outer ends of the Shanks Mare formed bosses or collars, b', in size equal to the inside diameter of the tribe or handle proper, y. 4

Through the centre of these bosses are formed ori'- iices for the reception or passage of the screw-bolt e.

j.' are nuts, which are fitted to the'outer ends of the vbolt c.

' g is a. plain or ornamental tube, eut the propel' or` desired length required to fill 'the space between, the outer ends of the Shanks b.

The bolt c is inserted through the tube-handler?, and the oriicesv in the slranks b and. bosses b. The ends of the tubular handle g are placed upon the bosses la', and the nuts f are screwed on'to the ends of the bolt e, ,thus compressing the detached parts ofthe handle firmly together.

By' this improvement I produce a clr'eap,riclr, and highly ornamental handle for trade and use. The boss b insrrres theassuming, by the thin met-al tube, ot` its true position, concentrically with its enclosed rod while being tightened to place by the screws, and admits of having the diameter of the tube as great as may be desired, with but little increase of weight.

lf, with srrclr a tube and a small central rod, no bosses were'provided on the levers, it is apparent that the moment it should be attempted tolift the casket, the tube would be pulled upward until it would touch the r'od, and thus destroy the syr'nrnetry and efficiency et' the handle. p

It also admits of forming the tubular part-s from regular tubing, or of making the. same from sheetnretal, and of indentiug, beading, or ornarnerlting thenr as desired.

. NVith rrry construction ot handle, usediu connection with the style of plates shown, all the parts are. nrore` readily put together, taken apart, packed for transportation, or applied to a casket, than it the levers were provided with trunnions insted of the single pins c.

d. do not claim, broadly, a lever having a side pin thereon at one end, and a.- hole through the other end; nor .such a lever combined with a. cast-iron handle., by means of a rod and iruts; but

, I claim--- The thirrrnetal tube combined with the levers b, each having a boss, b', andwitlr the, screw-bolt c and nuts f, substantially as shown and described.

Also, the casket-handle, asshown and described, and consisting of t-lre parts enumerated in the preceding claim, and combined with the plates a for receiving the fulcrurn-pins, as a new article of manufacture.

"tnessesz H. C.'\VILCOX.

Gno. W. SMITH, JAMES' G. Bonney. 

